Grafting a Cornea on a Blind Eye.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 61

Grafting a Cornea on a Blind Eye.

Dr. Afagiiot has been engaged upon interesting work at Paris in the way of grafting of the human cornea upon the eye of a blind man. A young man of fifteen years had almost lost the sight of one eye from a burn by quicklime, and an opaque layer covered all pver the cornea so that all light was cut off from the retina. Seven months ago Dr. Magitot cut in the middle of the opaque tissue an opening of about one-fifth of an inch square and then fitted in a miniature window pane in the shape of a square piece of transparent cornea. This he had taken from the eye of .another person eight days before. The tissues joined up completely gbout a week after, and the person thus partially recovered his sight. It is to be remarked that the piece of cornea ■was preserved in the living state before the grafting process according to a method similar to the one followed in America by Dr. Carrel.